The Boys on the Bus (1973)

The press corps, 1972 The same race as Thompson's, seen through the reporters covering it. Crouse grew the book out of his Rolling Stone articles on life on the road with the press, and shows how they really worked: traveling together, sharing the same briefings and drifting toward the same story. It was one of the first books on pack journalism, and its diagnosis still holds, which makes it essential for anyone who wants to read the other books here critically. It became a bestseller, and later editions carry a foreword by Thompson.